My good buddy & second-favorite native Hoosier (behind Michael, but ahead of Axl), Ms. Julia Story, had a great book review of her first collection of poems, Post Moxie, go up on Diagram today. Below the review is what has to be one of the most perfectly tailored interviews ever conducted. If you know Julie or Post Moxie at all, you can hear the smiling in this:
Kim: Describe the posture of your poems.
Julia: They sit cross-legged as they try to meditate, fiddling with their breathing. Certain that they are doing it incorrectly, certain that there must be a right way.
What is their gait?
Quick-paced, as down a sidewalk in December when it is dark and you are heading toward your car. The way you might walk when a really cold wind is hitting you in the face and you forgot your hat. You feel late and walk late.
What is their mantra?
Here/there, here/there.
If your poems were babies, what are the first words you would teach them?
Stay.
Go! Do! Read!
